Should You Double Track Your Vocals?

Should You Double Track Your Vocals? | Home Studio Tips

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In this video, we'll be talking about double tracking vocals. You'll learn the best practices and hear examples of the technique being used.
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0:00 What is Double Tracking?
0:52 How to Double Track Vocals
5:38 Examples of Double Tracked Vocals
11:33 When Should You Use This Technique?
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@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

do you guys ever double track your vocals? ⬇️

@Karlush 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but only in the Chorus and always panned. But I've never thought of having them all in the center. Will try this next time! Thanks for an awesome video :)

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

panning them is definitely a good sound as well! you can always try stacking the melody parts in the center and panning your doubled harmonies.

@ArturoRodz Жыл бұрын

I do!

@DanteS-119 Ай бұрын

Bro having an example that YOU did is fucking awesome man don't apologize lol it means you walk the walk and we're getting real information. You going off on a tangent about the history of double tracking was entertaining to listen to. Thank you!!!

@kevddiaz 2 жыл бұрын

Hey man, don’t apologize for promoting your band!! Get your stuff out there, with pride! it was a smooth way of mentioning your own music

@sleepinggiant333 8 ай бұрын

Agreed. I wanted to hear more of it more so than other bands haha

@kclife7734 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, and great conclusion! Thank you for that! Very cool. I'll looking forward to watching more of your videos

@DutchNovak 8 ай бұрын

Great stuff men, you’re good at articulating and using examples

@ggmusic3483 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much, Eric that was so informative and helpful!

@nathanimboden 2 жыл бұрын

Love this video bro. I'm a professional musician trying to improve my studio production skills so this was a really useful video for me.

@Magpie16music Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

@PhilipMurrayDesign 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Eric - really great advice

@cagedbutterfly93 Жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks!

@mrfinlay7516 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative video!

@johntractor9799 2 жыл бұрын

I did a recording where i would sing the lead vocal. Then on another track, i sang the harmony for each chorus, (2 choruses in the song). I wanted to add another harmony (to make a 3 part harmony) for each chorus, but being lazy i tried copying that harmony track that i previously recorded and changed the pitch. It didn't sound good at all - strangely enough it just sounded like a pitch altered vocal track, (which it was). So i then on the 3rd harmony track, i cut the 2nd chorus vocals and pasted them to the 1st chorus, (and vice versa). This was much better, the differences when i sang each chorus really added to the sound when i switched them.

@egorsazanovich 10 ай бұрын

Hey hey! "Smells like Teen Spirit" was recorded in three takes, so no intentional double tracks were recorded. But after the recording session, sound engineers decided to make it "thicker", so as far as I remember these parts were not even double-tracked, but triple-tracked

@thischannelisdeleted 10 ай бұрын

This guy thinks pitch correction should be normalized, I can’t respect him.

@jasonbodden8816 8 ай бұрын

@@thischannelisdeleted Pretty much every studio uses it for almost every singer. To what degree is totally up to you. You don't need to pitch correct to super perfect that it sounds robotic but slagging the guy for pitch correction is just stupid.

@harveyrutterford7061 2 жыл бұрын

Should u pan them at all? Like one left and one right?

@davidarsenault7214 2 жыл бұрын

dude, great video. Subscribed (found you via your post on reddit_)

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

thank you! and thanks for subscribing, I appreciate it! more videos to come 🤘

@kayve214 2 жыл бұрын

How do I pan the double tracks?

@coltercresse2783 Жыл бұрын

What do you use for pitch correction?

@peterm13 2 жыл бұрын

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@darrylchambers7801 10 ай бұрын

Diana Ross doubled the lead vocal on "You keep me hangin on "

@j0kshe Жыл бұрын

can you do it throughout the whole track?

@scott7521 2 жыл бұрын

Two questions Eric: Would you recommend using two different mics to achieve this? I know you can just use the same mic twice but would you get an even better sound if you used two different ones? 2nd: do you recommend hard panning the vocals? Love to hear your thoughts.

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

it all depends! I use the same mic because the recordings match up more closely and that's what I'm usually going for. if you hard pan the vocals, you'll get a different effect but one that's still pretty neat. I would recommend just trying stuff and see what you like the best.

@TawdryTempest 2 жыл бұрын

Does the vocalist listen to the first track (in the headphones) while recording the second? In this example there is only one vocalist.

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

great question! in my experience, no, because it gets confusing trying to figure out which voice is coming out of your mouth and which voice is being played back haha. it can throw you off pitch super easily. if you're recording at home or in the control room, you can keep your eye on the waveforms of the main vocal track to see how long to hold out certain words etc.

@lucasbowman7188 2 жыл бұрын

Helpful informative video!

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

i’m glad it was useful for you!

@mr.e8432 Жыл бұрын

My buddy sings in to an sm57 and he sounds great. I double track, triple track and my voice still sounds like ass. You really didn’t mention panning much. Some guys will double track right down the middle, others will take the second track and run it through something like Soundtoys Alter Boy to Split it hard left and right. Also a small cut around 2-4khz on the double can help it blend in better with the main track.

@jasonbodden8816 8 ай бұрын

Well, I don't know what you sound like but for any layering to sound good you first have to have a good vocal take to work with, then your layered vocals have to be done well also.

@mr.e8432 8 ай бұрын

@jasonbodden8816 yeah, if I could actually sing that would help.👍

@tenea24 Жыл бұрын

What if I duplicated a complete track and hard panned each of them?

@EricAmesmusic Жыл бұрын

they’ll cancel each other out and it will just sound centered in the mix

@boonyco 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe I’m missing it but where is the blog and/or video about sends?

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

it's the video after this one chronologically

@DrunkDuckXD 2 жыл бұрын

So generally, when a harmony section come in, is that double tracked also? Having 4 vocal tracks?

@savagechallenge217 8 ай бұрын

No actually that is rarely the case any harmony part in a song that I can think of is a single track

@zohremaghsoodi9761 2 жыл бұрын

That was a cool video. I had no idea what double track meant, so it was all very interesting to me.

@Filou796 Жыл бұрын

Couldn’t have explained it better, thanks man🫶🏻

@carriefingsolomon 3 ай бұрын

Is there not a 3rd vocal under the Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl lead examples, singing an octave down also? I’ve thought about doing that but am a woman with a. High voice 😂 Anyway this vid was super helpful, thank you. I’ve been unsure whether to double my lead all the way through or just choruses/big parts and now I know it’s whatever I want to do😝 Helpful to have it broken down though

@i55a9 2 жыл бұрын

If I record twice should I pan one left and one right?

@jSattJamboree 2 жыл бұрын

I came here to ask the same thing.

@dylanj8676 Жыл бұрын

I find fake double tracking can make cheap mics sound a lot better. Even with limited or no processing somehow mics without as much clarity and low end sound better with two of the same recording layered on different tracks. I don't know why this works, it just sounds fuller.

@Hello-pl2qe 2 жыл бұрын

Nice subject and video man. Are pornstaches back in?

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

🥸

@dagmerrie Ай бұрын

4 examples and zero 80's music where it got really popular to take it to it's limits. For example The Cure or Siouxsie and The Banshees should've been there.

@kylekazlaw9105 9 ай бұрын

Lost me on "Everyone uses pitch correction". Thats why todays music has shit for integrity in relation to yesterdays... Modern recording favors technology over performance, talent and ability. I'd rather be out of pitch slightly and deliver a great performance... Greatness is not in perfection. It's in delivery. Nuff Said...

@longsnapper5381 2 жыл бұрын

Adele doesn't use pitch correction.

@happymum8612 Жыл бұрын

Yes she does lol.

@longsnapper5381 Жыл бұрын

@@happymum8612 Sorry, she is often pitchy and it works beautifully for her. Don't comment on things you know nothing about.

@simonetodd3490 Жыл бұрын

Maybe she doesn’t but the person who engineers her session does lol

@longsnapper5381 Жыл бұрын

@@simonetodd3490 For people like you ,sure.....

@thischannelisdeleted 10 ай бұрын

NO, you’re WRONG. Only imposter musicians use auto tune.

@FreeKeenan 2 ай бұрын

There's way too much talking and explaining between samples.

@FreeKeenan 2 ай бұрын

Too much talking and not enough straight to the point on the matter. So what's the secret tunings?

@thischannelisdeleted 10 ай бұрын

I can’t respect any musicians that uses pitch correction, I’m sorry (not sorry). This is why music is dead nowadays. Authentic artistry is dead in this age. It’s very sad.